he married the woman of his dreams, beautiful and sweet. she was just angelic. and was folded into her tight-knit family headed by an elderly religious matriarch. you were either part of their family or you weren t. together they had a little girl, sydney. when their marriage fell apart, her family closed ranks. in their view, sydney was their property. one day he went to pick up his little girl for a visit and was never seen alive again. he died right there. dad?ut who would kill a devoted the unbelievable choice, his golden girl wife or the gracious family matriarch? they seemed so loving, but was there another side. it s a monster that comes out of a closet. it s very ugly. how dark is that side? murderous. but which one was the killer? hello and welcome to dateline. he was a man suddenly confronted with something monstrous, evil at the door. this story is a mystery about a father of two young daughters. one night he left to pick up one of them an
their family or you weren t. together they had a little girl, sydney. when their marriage fell apart, her family closed ranks. in their view, sydney was their property. one day he went to pick up his little girl for a visit and was never seen alive again. he died right there. but who would kill a devoted dad? the unbelievable choice, his golden girl wife or the gracious family matriarch? they seemed so loving, but was there another side. it s a monster that comes out of a closet. it s very ugly. how dark is that side? murderous. but which one was the killer? hello and welcome to dateline. he was a man suddenly confronted with something monstrous, evil at the door. this story is a mystery about a father of two young daughters. one night he left to pick up one of them and never came back. the question for investigators wasn t what happened. it was who did it. in the home of a god-fearing family in one of the smallest of american towns, the worst of crimes.
people that surround you? get one? want to feed it to me? our story begins with stephen watkins who had grown up in tiny chandlerville in rural central illinois, population 700. he d had the kind of ideal childhood he wanted to recreate on his own. i think that was probably his biggest goal in life, was to have that family that he grew up with. stephen s parents, penny and dale, say even as a kid their boy was always holding his younger sister ashleigh or cousins playing with him, showering them with attention. he loved kids, loved people, and he was going to have kids and be around them. he was patient and kind and had a smile for everyone. you could always see the smile in his eyes. i could just look at him and see the joy of life. brandy ran cross country with stephen back in the 90s.
please come and help us. okay. i ll get a hold of the ambulance. all right? yes. the crime became a mystery, a whodunit? it s a puzzle. almost a game of three card monte. it made many people in town wonder about one particular family, about what had been going on behind the closed doors of their home. how well do you really know your neighbors? how well do you really know the people that surround you? get one? want me to feed it to him? our story begins with stephen watkins who had grown up in tiny chandlerville in rural central illinois, population 700. he d had the kind of ideal childhood he wanted to recreate on his own. i think that was probably his biggest goal in life, was to have that family that he grew up with. stephen s parents, penny and dale, say even as a kid their boy was always holding his
crimes. please come and help us. okay. i ll get a hold of the ambulance. all right? yes. the crime became a mystery, a whodunit? it s a puzzle. almost a game of three card monte. it made many people in town wonder about one particular family, about what had been going on behind the closed doors of their home. how well do you really know your neighbors? how well do you really know the people that surround you? get one? want me to feed it to him? our story begins with stephen watkins who had grown up in tiny chandlerville in rural central illinois, population 700. he d had the kind of ideal childhood he wanted to recreate on his own. i think that was probably his biggest goal in life, was to have that family that he grew up with. stephen s parents, penny and dale, say even as a kid their boy was always holding his younger sister ashleigh or cousins playing with him, showering them with attention. he loved kids, loved people, and he was going to have kids